i must have seen a different film!!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The actors were fine, OK? But this movie is just a stupid mess of outrageous nonsense.If you have nothing better to do, don't even consider watching this groan-er. You're better off watching paint dry instead.Just a few examples (and these are spoilers): The family-owned mill, which was the major employer in town and the region, shuts down to build a cheating casino that also makes and sells drugs to kids.Huh?!?!? They shut down an on-going for-profit mill that was the MAJOR source of income for the region, to build a casino -- that needed patrons who had an income (from the mill?) to lose? The Rock, before he becomes sheriff, comes to the casino and spots the crap table croupier switching dice for a loaded pair. The result? The Rock gets beaten up to a pulp by the casino security thugs, in front of everybody else.And nobody cares. This ain't a good example of a casino's customer relations policy to keep people coming back.And, among others, the scene were the Rock's office (he's now the sheriff) gets massacred for around 15 minutes of movie time with machine gunfire and other mayhem. And NOBODY from town shows up? To see what's going on? To recognize the bad guys by sight? Meanwhile, the bad guys were laughing in front of God and everybody and didn't care if anyone was watching? Again, watching paint dry is a better option. Or maybe "My Mother the Car" reruns.

This movie, given its star actor, is what I imagine watching a wrestling match is like. There is nonstop action and movement with breaks taken only due to fatigue. From the opening camera moving across the landscape, to Chris on a moving ferry, to Chris walking for the entire opening credits back home, you don't encounter many, if any, scenes of one setting, with two actors in a one-on-one situation, engaging in dialogue for several long minutes. Maybe that's a drama, and this, to be sure, is certainly no drama movie. So much happens in this movie, which seems to make it so interesting, and a rush. What some people spend their entire lives doing or could take more than one lifetime doing -- weeding out corruption and social rot in a city/town, seems to get accomplished in the span of a couple months. Also in that time-frame Chris wins a small election (details of which aren't shown) which turns in to a good job and gets back with his former girlfriend. Does life happen this quickly for some people, especially somebody who was away for eight years? In "Walking Tall", it did.

74 minutes was filled with action-packed, shoot them up scenes. The Rock is like a character out of a Sylvester Stallone film.The premise where a returning soldier goes home to find his town filled with corruption is a familiar theme. Getting involved when a family member is affected with a drug overdose is also trite.The film proceeds too rapidly on that memorable trial, and our hero becoming the town sheriff and immediately cleaning things up as they did in old Dodge City.The violence is expected as the new sheriff tries to set things straight.I liked the film, but there needed to be more character development.

Walking Tall (2004) is a remake of the original movie in 1973. Walking Tall is based on the true story of Sheriff Buford Pusser played by Dwayne Johnson (The Rock). Chris Vaughn (Pusser played by The Rock), is a former U.S Army Sergeant that returns to his hometown. Unemployed and looking for work, he soon learns the cedar mill has been closed down for a few years and a new major source of income is the casino run by Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough), an old friend of Vaughn's.At the casino Vaughn learns that Hamilton is running a crooked operation and later discovers that casino security has been selling drugs to his nephew, Pete, and that they are monopolizing the whole town. When he first finds out they are using loaded dice he begins a fight at the casino and in turn is tortured by Hamilton's men quite badly, and sustains injury to his torso. After Vaughn recovers, he takes matters into his own hands.This movie tackles a popular theme, which is to fight against corruption, against people who look good on the outside but not on the inside. If you've ever done it, you'll enjoy this movie. - Asif Zamir